I consider this an excellent type to make your first Republican. I doubt you will decide to get 231 more to call it a set but having a type with...
Maximinus coins seem to bring a premium when the portrait is a bit uglier than average. The 'giant' emperor probably did have the exaggerated...
Continuing down the road to the end of Provincial coins are these two from year nine. Both show the date written out L ENATOV avoiding the...
We are fine as long as we realize that there is always a chance a new find will change the game. [ATTACH] Trivia: Why am I showing a coin of...
Agree! There are two groups of us: (1) Those who benefit from the exposure of fakes and the spread of information about them and (2) those who...
I welcome Dane's listing of the Beckers. So few people can tell the difference that any hints to sort them out and warn people are welcome....
How do you determine when a set is complete? I know nothing about Aeolis or hundreds of other places but I do know there are coins uncertainly...
This is the problem I see with most fakes databases. Looking at this new blog, I see several really obvious fakes from style and a few that I can...
No fair JA! You showed the real one. How about this one: [IMG] Becker. Love that Wildwinds!
Staying ahead of the forgers is a hard task but worse is the fact that fakes refused by one dealer are certain to be shopped around to find one...
That is a nice coin and Faustina II was wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius but this particular one list her as daughter of Antoninus Pius (obverse...
If there ever was an emperor to be collected in gold, it is Postumus. He has several really great obverses and reverses that do not exist in...
I remain fond of my AE1 MARTI PATRI PROPVGNATORI from Trier. [ATTACH] Any use this late of the Olympian gods other than Jupiter is scarce.
Trajan Decius (and his wife Herennia Etrucilla) but mine is the worst one I have seen. Better: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=100998...
That is a very nice specimen. I don't know what percentage are overstruck but many are very thin and flat so would have had to have been hammered...
Are there fake silver coins? Thousands. Is this coin fake? I do not think so but I will not say any coin is definitely genuine based only on a...
This is a zero globe type. That dot is a layout mark from the compass used for the border.
Latitude suggests there were rules spelled out that would suggest the cutter should/could make changes. I suspect it was more unwritten and a...
I am a big fan of Magnentius but not nearly as into Lugdunum as you are. The two victories are probably the most common of the types probably...
I remain unwilling to accept AVS as an 'error' but consider it a variation in abbreviation using the first part and last letter of the word. More...
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